 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket...  Poems, with a memoir of the author - Стр. 56авторы: William Cowper - 1847Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Cowper - 1874 - Страниц: 340
...315 Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 330 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down...wit, Receives no praise, but, though her lot be such, 325 (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - Страниц: 330
...begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins...gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 320 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She,... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - Страниц: 408
...that can bo simple. conspic'nous, easily read. meretri'cious, false. seen. ostenta'tion, show. •' She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...praise ; but, though her lot be such, (Toilsome and indigent) she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,— A truth the brilliant... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - Страниц: 858
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath. And, smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins...though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her thread about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Страниц: 860
...• Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Voltaire and the Lace-ivorter. — From ' Truth. ' days we indigent — she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — Л truth the brilliant... | |
 | W. J. Humberstone - 1875 - Страниц: 234
...truth must be made a practical guide in life, and then indeed, " the truth shall make you free." " Ton cottager, who weaves at her own. door, Pillow and...praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent) , she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - Страниц: 870
...Vol tain and 'the ¿act-worker. — From ' Truth.' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, I'illow ae forms to compel me to seem wae or glad, I may laugh when I "m indigent — she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - Страниц: 474
...and the poor cottager, are exquisite pieces of eloquence and poetry, particularly the last : " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins...by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit, Keceives no praise ; but, though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much ; Just knows,... | |
 | Maurice Lothian - 1876 - Страниц: 316
...her peaceful shore. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door Pillow and bobbins, all her little store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down...pocket light. She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Needs little understanding, and no wit, Just knows and knows no more — her Bible true — A truth... | |
 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1878 - Страниц: 424
...supplied, Lived long, wrote much, laugh'd heartily, and died.' In pointed contrast with whom — ' Von cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman... | |
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